Jahangir Babakov

Jahangir Babakov (15 March 1984-2 October 2015) was a member of the Islamic State from Tajikistan.

Biography
Jahangir Babakov was born on 15 March 1984 in Kulob, Tajik SSR, Soviet Union (present-day Tajikistan) to a family of Sunni Muslims. Babakov became a radical Islamist later in his life, and he decided to join forces with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in the Iraqi Civil War. Babakov was the leader of a cell of Tajik foreign fighters in ISIS, and on 2 October 2015 he was killed in a USAF airstrike near al-Raqqah during Operation Inherent Resolve.